Box Score Recap – 6/25/2014

Box Score Recap

Yankees pre-season #9 (per BA) Luis Severino, totally shut down the Clearwater squad – he allowed just one walk and struck out six in six no-hit innings. Mercy. Andrew Pullin had three hits and a walk, and Zach Green two plus a free pass for Lakewood.

Damek Tomscha remains the dominant force (small sample size) you’d expect to get when you put one of the SEC’s top five on-base guys of 2014 into a league with a bunch of recent high school grads and Dominican teenagers on the hill against him. Ok, to be fair, some of those guys are from Venezuela and probably like Panama or Columbia or other places.

And speaking of Dominican teenagers, 17-year-olds Randy Alcantara and Oscar Marcelino both made their pro debuts. Both allowed a couple of base runners and single unearned runs. Welcome to the pros, fellas.

Here’s the affiliate Scoreboard from MiLB. http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?sid=milb&org=143&ymd=20140625

6-25-14

30 thoughts on “Box Score Recap – 6/25/2014”

  1. Alastre in the DSL was batting 9th. He’s been hitting in one the top 3 slots in the lineup all season long and is hitting .337. He must have ticked someone off.

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  2. Tomscha’s placement in the GCL is definitely strange. There must be something up with him given the good stats he had in a top conference such that so many teams passed on him in the draft and the Phils assigned him to the GCL.

    All that said I maintain my irrational Tomscha fandom until proven otherwise!

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    1. He can’t be long for the GCL with Walding only hitting .214 in LKW he could see himself there soon…

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      1. But Zach Green is in Lakewood too, and will presumably return to playing third at some point. Really third base is pretty crowded throughout the system. If Tomscha is a diamond in the Ruf, he will need to fight for playing time to prove it.

        For now he’s anchoring the GCL lineup and hopefully helping out the young kids, but if he keeps this up I imagine they will have to move him somewhere. Exactly where is unclear.

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    2. I read an article that the plan was to send him there briefly to get him some quick ABs since he had been off for awhile due to Auburn not qualifying for post season play. He’ll be moved any day now I would think

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    3. It’s funny, I’ve only read positive things about Tomscha since he was drafted- good pop, contact swing, plus arm- I’d swear he was drafted earlier than the 17th round.

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  3. boy I was hoping Quinn and Crawford together was going to be something to watch. So far just a yawn feast. Hoping they can get it going because that could be look at future starting lineup in ’16.

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    1. I love that we have two good looking prospect at Clearwater in Quinn and Crawford. gives me some hope. now if we can develop a left fielder and right hand power bat, would be nice, and two cheap starters, say nola, and ????

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    2. The expectations for Crawford have gotten out of hand. He’s a year out of high school! He is not going to immediately dominate every league he’s in! If he struggles all year and ends up back in Clearwater to start next season, he’s still on schedule.

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  5. Pullin is looking great again, this is very good news for the system. Another hot week could get him sent to CWater to stick with Crawford and Quinn. Zack Green seems to be progressing also. Let’s hope…

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  7. Mike Drago just posted some really frustrated sounding quotes from Biddle on Twitter. To wit: “Nothing feels fluid on the mound, nothing feels natural” … “I’m miserable out there. I’m very unhappy. And I don’t know why.”

    On the bright side, it seems like he’s saying there’s no physical problem. On the less-bright side, it sounds like he’s a basket case mentally and mechanically. I could totally see how one could aggravate the other–once you get preoccupied with your mechanics (at least in my very limited personal experience with athletics) it can be hard to get back to that kind of unconscious groove.

    Sounds like he needs some time off and maybe a new pitching coach.

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    1. Sounds like he needs to do less pitching through severe physical problems like pertussis, a foot injury, and a concussion. It seems totally inhumane that the Phillies kept trotting him out there to pitch when he was not physically well. That will certainly mess up your mechanics, cause despair and self-doubt, and possibly (hopefully not) an arm injury. There have been games when he was obviously, totally lost out there and the coach/manager left him in the game. It is amazing how the Phillies don’t protect their top pitching prospect. It really makes you wonder how much this organizational philosophy to pitch through adversity had to do with the surgeries to Morgan and Watson. There truly is something very seriously amiss in the Phillies minor league development program.

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    2. Sounds like a concussed situation from the May head trauma during the hail storm, that has not been resolved.

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      1. Maybe. It’s hard to play amateur neurologist. But Biddle was having issues with consistency even before the hail storm, it’s been a real up-and-down year for him and then it all started to unravel. Could be a concussion. But it sounds like from his comments that he’s saying it’s mental and mechanical.

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  8. Maybe it would help if the younger players told the trainers and coaches when they are really hurt the first time and not try to hide it? I seriously doubt that the Phillies would have let Biddle pitch if they knew he had concussion like symptoms when it originally happened. But I agree that they should have intervened after the second or third bad start in a row and a new pitching coach at Reading seems like a great idea if he goes back to AA. Biddle had two good halves in AA over two years so maybe some winter work and improvement could get him to AAA. The most important thing is for him to get healthy in all areas.

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    1. Different grades of concussion.
      Affects everyone differently
      He did have a headache after the incident.
      Was he placed on the DL or did he miss a start or two?.

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    2. They let him pitch last season when they knew he had pertussis and when they knew he had a foot injury, leaving him out there when he was clearly lost and laboring in some games.

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  10. I just don’t understand Allentown, You are saying that they had him pitch, when they knew he was hurt? What team would do that to any young kid. I just cant buy what your saying, They have too much invested in this kid to do that, if true, major league baseball should shut down the organization, any team that would risk a young kids future, doesn’t deserve to have a franchise,

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  11. Reality is Biddle has regressed this year.(It happens to a lot of prospects) Very disappointing,since we had him ranked so high,but if the Phillies farm system wasn’t so poor,he would’ve been ranked lower.

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